Sefer Yeṣira : edition, translation and text-critical commentary / A. Peter Hayman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayman, A. Peter, 1943-

Series:

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 104.

Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism, 0721-8753 ; 104

Standardized Title:

Sefer Yezirah English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sefer Yeẓirah--Commentaries.

Sefer Yeẓirah.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2004.

Contents:

The fluid state of the text of Sefer Yeṣira

Why a new edition of Sefer Yeṣira?

The "original text" of SY or "the earliest recoverable text"?

Editing Jewish texts fro the first millennium C.E.

The manuscripts

The rules of the edition

Abbreviations in the textual apparatus

Notes on the manuscripts

The Chapter and paragraph divisions (Appendix II)

The four pre-kabbalistic commentaries

The earliest recoverable text of Sefer Yeṣira and the three recensions

The three recensions and the development of the SY text tradition

Appendix I: The attestation of the paragraphs in the manuscripts

Appendix II: The order of the paragraphs in the manuscripts

Appendix III: The earliest recoverable text of Sefer Yeṣira

Appendix IV: The long recension additions

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-202) and indexes.

Contains:

Sefer Yeẓirah.

ISBN:

3161483812

OCLC:

57170774